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<p><a href="http://buildroot.uclibc.org/">Buildroot</a> usage and documentation by Thomas Petazzoni. Contributions from
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- Karsten Kruse, Ned Ludd, Martin Herren and others.</p>
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+ Karsten Kruse, Ned Ludd, Martin Herren and others. </p>
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<p><small>$LastChangedDate$</small></p>
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generate both a cross-compilation toolchain and a root filesystem for your
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target. The cross-compilation toolchain uses uClibc (<a href=
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"http://www.uclibc.org/">http://www.uclibc.org/</a>), a tiny C standard
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- library.</p>
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+ library. </p>
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<p>Buildroot is useful mainly for people working with embedded systems.
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Embedded systems often use processors that are not the regular x86
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processors everyone is used to have on his PC. It can be PowerPC
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- processors, MIPS processors, ARM processors, etc.</p>
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+ processors, MIPS processors, ARM processors, etc. </p>
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<p>A compilation toolchain is the set of tools that allows to
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compile code for your system. It consists of a compiler (in our
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generally, the machine on which it is running, and on which you're
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working is called the "host system". The compilation toolchain
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is provided by your distribution, and Buildroot has nothing to do
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- with it.</p>
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+ with it. </p>
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<p>As said above, the compilation toolchain that comes with your system
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runs and generates code for the processor of your host system. As your
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example, if your host system uses x86 and your target system uses ARM, the
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regular compilation toolchain of your host runs on x86 and generates code
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for x86, while the cross-compilation toolchain runs on x86 and generates
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- code for ARM.</p>
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+ code for ARM. </p>
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<p>Even if your embedded system uses a x86 processor, you might interested
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in Buildroot, for two reasons:</p>
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Libc on your target system, you can use uClibc which is a tiny C standard
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library. If you want to use this C library, then you need a compilation
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toolchain to generate binaries linked with it. Buildroot can do it for
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- you.</li>
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+ you. </li>
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<li>Buildroot automates the building of a root filesystem with all needed
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- tools like busybox. It makes it much easier than doing it by hand.</li>
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+ tools like busybox. It makes it much easier than doing it by hand. </li>
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</ul>
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<p>You might wonder why such a tool is needed when you can compile
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version it very time-consuming and uninteresting. Buildroot automates this
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process through the use of Makefiles, and has a collection of patches for
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each <code>gcc</code> and <code>binutils</code> version to make them work
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- on most architectures.</p>
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+ on most architectures. </p>
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<h2><a name="download" id="download"></a>Obtaining Buildroot</h2>
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<p>Buildroot is available as daily SVN snapshots or directly using
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- SVN.</p>
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+ SVN. </p>
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<p>The latest snapshot is always available at <a
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href="http://buildroot.uclibc.org/downloads/snapshots/buildroot-snapshot.tar.bz2">http://buildroot.uclibc.org/downloads/snapshots/buildroot-snapshot.tar.bz2</a>,
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and previous snapshots are also available at <a
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- href="http://buildroot.uclibc.org/downloads/snapshots/">http://buildroot.uclibc.org/downloads/snapshots/</a>.</p>
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+ href="http://buildroot.uclibc.org/downloads/snapshots/">http://buildroot.uclibc.org/downloads/snapshots/</a>. </p>
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<p>To download Buildroot using SVN, you can simply follow
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the rules described on the "Accessing SVN"-page (<a href=
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</pre>
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<p>For each entry of the configuration tool, you can find associated help
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- that describes the purpose of the entry.</p>
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+ that describes the purpose of the entry. </p>
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<p>One of the key configuration items is the <code>PROJECT</code> which
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determines where some board specific packages are built and where the
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<p>Once everything is configured, the configuration tool has generated a
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<code>.config</code> file that contains the description of your
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- configuration. It will be used by the Makefiles to do what's needed.</p>
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+ configuration. It will be used by the Makefiles to do what's needed. </p>
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<p>Let's go:</p>
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$ make source
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</pre>
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<p>You can now disconnect or copy the content of your <code>dl</code>
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- directory to the build-host.</p>
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+ directory to the build-host. </p>
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<h3><a name="environment_variables" id="environment_variables"></a>
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Environment variables</h3>
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You can simply make your changes here, and run make afterwards, which will
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rebuild the target filesystem image. This method allows to do everything
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on the target filesystem, but if you decide to completely rebuild your
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- toolchain and tools, these changes will be lost.</li>
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+ toolchain and tools, these changes will be lost. </li>
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<li>Customize the target filesystem skeleton, available under
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<code>target/generic/target_skeleton/</code>. You can customize
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is not yet present, because it's created during the compilation process.
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So you can't do everything on this target filesystem skeleton, but
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changes to it remain even if you completely rebuild the cross-compilation
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- toolchain and the tools.<br />
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+ toolchain and the tools. <br />
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You can also customize the <code>target/generic/device_table.txt</code>
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file which is used by the tools that generate the target filesystem image
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to properly set permissions and create device nodes. The
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directories of a root filesystem and there is no obvious reason for which
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it should be changed. These main directories are in an tarball inside of
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inside the skeleton because it contains symlinks that would be broken
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- otherwise.<br />
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+ otherwise. <br />
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These customizations are deployed into
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<code>project_build_ARCH/root/</code> just before the actual image
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is made. So simply rebuilding the image by running
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- make should propagate any new changes to the image.</li>
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+ make should propagate any new changes to the image. </li>
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<li>When configuring the build system, using <code>make menuconfig</code>,
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you can specify the contents of the /etc/hostname and /etc/issue
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<p><a href="http://www.busybox.net/">Busybox</a> is very configurable, and
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you may want to customize it. You can
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follow these simple steps to do it. It's not an optimal way, but it's
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- simple and it works.</p>
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+ simple and it works. </p>
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<ol>
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<li>Make a first compilation of buildroot with busybox without trying to
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- customize it.</li>
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+ customize it. </li>
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<li>Invoke <code>make busybox-menuconfig</code>.
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The nice configuration tool appears and you can
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- customize everything.</li>
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+ customize everything. </li>
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- <li>Run the compilation of buildroot again.</li>
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+ <li>Run the compilation of buildroot again. </li>
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</ol>
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<p>Otherwise, you can simply change the
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know the options you want to change without using the configuration tool.
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</p>
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<p>If you want to use an existing config file for busybox, then see
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- section <a href="#environment_variables">environment variables</a>.</p>
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+ section <a href="#environment_variables">environment variables</a>. </p>
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<h2><a name="custom_uclibc" id="custom_uclibc"></a>Customizing the uClibc
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configuration</h2>
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<p>Just like <a href="#custom_busybox">BusyBox</a>, <a
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href="http://www.uclibc.org/">uClibc</a> offers a lot of
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configuration options. They allow to select various
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- functionalities, depending on your needs and limitations.</p>
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+ functionalities, depending on your needs and limitations. </p>
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<p>The easiest way to modify the configuration of uClibc is to
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follow these steps :</p>
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<ol>
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<li>Make a first compilation of buildroot without trying to
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- customize uClibc.</li>
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+ customize uClibc. </li>
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<li>Invoke <code>make uclibc-menuconfig</code>.
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The nice configuration assistant, similar to
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the one used in the Linux Kernel or in Buildroot appears. Make
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- your configuration as appropriate.</li>
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+ your configuration as appropriate. </li>
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<li>Copy the <code>.config</code> file to
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<code>toolchain/uClibc/uClibc.config</code> or
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<code>toolchain/uClibc/uClibc.config-locale</code>. The former
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is used if you haven't selected locale support in Buildroot
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configuration, and the latter is used if you have selected
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- locale support.</li>
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+ locale support. </li>
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<li>Run the compilation of Buildroot again</li>
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<p>Otherwise, you can simply change
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<code>toolchain/uClibc/uClibc.config</code> or
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<code>toolchain/uClibc/uClibc.config-locale</code> without running
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- the configuration assistant.</p>
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+ the configuration assistant. </p>
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<p>If you want to use an existing config file for uclibc, then see
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- section <a href="#environment_variables">environment variables</a>.</p>
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+ section <a href="#environment_variables">environment variables</a>. </p>
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<h2><a name="buildroot_innards" id="buildroot_innards"></a>How Buildroot
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works</h2>
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configure and compiles software with the correct options. It also includes
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some patches for various software, mainly the ones involved in the
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cross-compilation tool chain (<code>gcc</code>, <code>binutils</code> and
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- uClibc).</p>
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+ uClibc). </p>
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<p>There is basically one Makefile per software, and they are named with
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the <code>.mk</code> extension. Makefiles are split into three
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<li><b>package</b> (in the <code>package/</code> directory) contains the
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Makefiles and associated files for all user-space tools that Buildroot
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can compile and add to the target root filesystem. There is one
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- sub-directory per tool.</li>
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+ sub-directory per tool. </li>
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<li><b>toolchain</b> (in the <code>toolchain/</code> directory) contains
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the Makefiles and associated files for all software related to the
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cross-compilation toolchain : <code>binutils</code>, <code>ccache</code>,
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<code>gcc</code>, <code>gdb</code>, <code>kernel-headers</code> and
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- <code>uClibc</code>.</li>
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+ <code>uClibc</code>. </li>
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<li><b>target</b> (in the <code>target</code> directory) contains the
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Makefiles and associated files for software related to the generation of
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: ext2, jffs2, cramfs and squashfs. For each of them, there's a
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sub-directory with the required files. There is also a
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<code>default/</code> directory that contains the target filesystem
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- skeleton.</li>
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+ skeleton. </li>
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</ul>
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<p>Each directory contains at least 2 files :</p>
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<ul>
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<li><code>something.mk</code> is the Makefile that downloads, configures,
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- compiles and installs the software <code>something</code>.</li>
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+ compiles and installs the software <code>something</code>. </li>
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<li><code>Config.in</code> is a part of the configuration tool
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description file. It describes the option related to the current
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- software.</li>
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+ software. </li>
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<li>Create the download directory (<code>dl/</code> by default). This is
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where the tarballs will be downloaded. It is interesting to know that the
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tarballs are in this directory because it may be useful to save them
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- somewhere to avoid further downloads.</li>
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+ somewhere to avoid further downloads. </li>
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<li>Create the shared build directory (<code>build_ARCH/</code> by
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default, where <code>ARCH</code> is your architecture). This is where all
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<li>Create the project specific result directory
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(<code>binaries/$(PROJECT)</code> by default, where <code>ARCH</code>
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- is your architecture). This is where the root file system images are
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+ is your architecture). This is where the root filesystem images are
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stored, It is also used to store the linux kernel image and any
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utilities, boot-loaders etc. needed for a target.
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</li>
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<li>Create the toolchain build directory
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(<code>toolchain_build_ARCH/</code> by default, where <code>ARCH</code>
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is your architecture). This is where the cross compilation toolchain will
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- be compiled.</li>
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+ be compiled. </li>
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<li>Setup the staging directory (<code>build_ARCH/staging_dir/</code> by
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default). This is where the cross-compilation toolchain will be
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<code>build_ARCH/staging_dir/usr/bin</code> to your PATH, and then use
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<code>arch-linux-gcc</code> to compile your application. In order to
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setup this staging directory, it first removes it, and then it creates
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- various subdirectories and symlinks inside it.</li>
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+ various subdirectories and symlinks inside it. </li>
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<li>Create the target directory (<code>project_build_ARCH/root/</code> by
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default) and the target filesystem skeleton. This directory will contain
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uncompress the <code>target/generic/skel.tar.gz</code> file to create the
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main subdirectories and symlinks, copies the skeleton available in
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<code>target/generic/target_skeleton</code> and then removes useless
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- <code>.svn/</code> directories.</li>
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+ <code>.svn/</code> directories. </li>
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<li>Add the <code>TARGETS</code> dependency. This should generally check
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if the configuration option for this package is enabled, and if so then
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"subscribe" this package to be compiled by adding it to the
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- TARGETS global variable.</li>
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+ TARGETS global variable. </li>
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<h2><a name="using_toolchain" id="using_toolchain"></a>Using the
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<p>You may want to compile your own programs or other software
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that are not packaged in Buildroot. In order to do this, you can
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- use the toolchain that was generated by Buildroot.</p>
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+ use the toolchain that was generated by Buildroot. </p>
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<p>The toolchain generated by Buildroot by default is located in
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<code>build_ARCH/staging_dir/</code>. The simplest way to use it
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is to add <code>build_ARCH/staging_dir/usr/bin/</code> to your PATH
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environnement variable, and then to use
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<code>arch-linux-gcc</code>, <code>arch-linux-objdump</code>,
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- <code>arch-linux-ld</code>, etc.</p>
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+ <code>arch-linux-ld</code>, etc. </p>
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<p>For example, you may add the following to your
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<code>.bashrc</code> (considering you're building for the MIPS
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<i>gcc</i> configuration. If the default toolchain directory
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doesn't suit your needs, please refer to the <a
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href="#toolchain_standalone">Using the uClibc toolchain outside of
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- buildroot</a> section.</p>
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+ buildroot</a> section. </p>
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<p>If you are using a current gcc-4.x, then use --sysroot and -isysroot
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since these toolchains have fully functional sysroot support. No
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- hardcoded paths do exist in these configurations.</p>
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+ hardcoded paths do exist in these configurations. </p>
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<h2><a name="toolchain_standalone" id="toolchain_standalone"></a>Using the
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uClibc toolchain outside of buildroot</h2>
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or by other users. Moving the <code>build_ARCH/staging_dir/</code>
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directory elsewhere is <b>not possible if using gcc-3.x</b>, because they
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are some hardcoded paths in the toolchain configuration. This works, thanks
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- to sysroot support, with current, stable gcc-4.x toolchains, of course.</p>
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+ to sysroot support, with current, stable gcc-4.x toolchains, of course. </p>
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<p>If you want to use the generated gcc-3.x toolchain for other purposes,
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you can configure Buildroot to generate it elsewhere using the
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option of the configuration tool : <code>Build options ->
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Toolchain and header file location</code>, which defaults to
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- <code>$(BUILD_DIR)/staging_dir/</code>.</p>
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+ <code>$(BUILD_DIR)/staging_dir/</code>. </p>
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<h2><a name="downloaded_packages"
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id="downloaded_packages"></a>Location of downloaded packages</h2>
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version of Buildroot which is know to be working with the
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associated tarballs. This will allow you to regenerate the
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toolchain and the target filesystem with exactly the same
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- versions.</p>
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+ versions. </p>
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<h2><a name="add_software" id="add_software"></a>Extending Buildroot with
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more software</h2>
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<p>This section will only consider the case in which you want to
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- add user-space software.</p>
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+ add user-space software. </p>
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<h3>Package directory</h3>
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<p>First of all, create a directory under the <code>package</code>
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- directory for your software, for example <code>foo</code>.</p>
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+ directory for your software, for example <code>foo</code>. </p>
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<h3><code>Config.in</code> file</h3>
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</pre>
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<p>Of course, you can add other options to configure particular
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- things in your software.</p>
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+ things in your software. </p>
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<h3>The real <i>Makefile</i></h3>
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<code>foo.mk</code>. It will contain the <i>Makefile</i> rules that
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are in charge of downloading, configuring, compiling and installing
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the software. Below is an example that we will comment
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- afterwards.</p>
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+ afterwards. </p>
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<pre>
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<a name="line1" id="line1">1</a> #############################################################
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binary software. For other software such as libraries or more
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complex stuff with multiple binaries, it should be adapted. Look at
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the other <code>*.mk</code> files in the <code>package</code>
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- directory.</p>
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+ directory. </p>
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<p>At lines <a href="#line6">6-11</a>, a couple of useful variables are
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defined :</p>
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<ul>
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<li><code>FOO_VERSION</code> : The version of <i>foo</i> that
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- should be downloaded.</li>
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+ should be downloaded. </li>
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<li><code>FOO_SOURCE</code> : The name of the tarball of
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<i>foo</i> on the download website of FTP site. As you can see
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- <code>FOO_VERSION</code> is used.</li>
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+ <code>FOO_VERSION</code> is used. </li>
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<li><code>FOO_SITE</code> : The HTTP or FTP site from which
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<i>foo</i> archive is downloaded. It must include the complete
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path to the directory where <code>FOO_SOURCE</code> can be
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- found.</li>
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+ found. </li>
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<li><code>FOO_DIR</code> : The directory into which the software
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will be configured and compiled. Basically, it's a subdirectory
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of <code>BUILD_DIR</code> which is created upon decompression of
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- the tarball.</li>
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+ the tarball. </li>
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<li><code>FOO_BINARY</code> : Software binary name. As said
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- previously, this is an example for a single binary software.</li>
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+ previously, this is an example for a single binary software. </li>
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<li><code>FOO_TARGET_BINARY</code> : The full path of the binary
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- inside the target filesystem.</li>
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+ inside the target filesystem. </li>
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</ul>
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<p>Lines <a href="#line13">13-14</a> defines a target that downloads the
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tarball from the remote site to the download directory
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- (<code>DL_DIR</code>).</p>
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+ (<code>DL_DIR</code>). </p>
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<p>Lines <a href="#line16">16-18</a> defines a target and associated rules
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that uncompress the downloaded tarball. As you can see, this target
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to mark the software has having been uncompressed. This trick is
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used everywhere in Buildroot <i>Makefile</i> to split steps
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(download, uncompress, configure, compile, install) while still
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- having correct dependencies.</p>
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+ having correct dependencies. </p>
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<p>Lines <a href="#line20">20-31</a> defines a target and associated rules
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that configures the software. It depends on the previous target (the
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<code>/usr</code>, not because the software will be installed in
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<code>/usr</code> on your host system, but in the target
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filesystem. Finally it creates a <code>.configured</code> file to
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- mark the software as configured.</p>
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+ mark the software as configured. </p>
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<p>Lines <a href="#line33">33-34</a> defines a target and a rule that
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compiles the software. This target will create the binary file in the
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compilation directory, and depends on the software being already
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configured (hence the reference to the <code>.configured</code>
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file). It basically runs <code>make</code> inside the source
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- directory.</p>
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+ directory. </p>
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<p>Lines <a href="#line36">36-38</a> defines a target and associated rules
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that install the software inside the target filesystem. It depends on the
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the software inside host <code>/usr</code> but inside target
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<code>/usr</code>. After the installation, the
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<code>/usr/man</code> directory inside the target filesystem is
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- removed to save space.</p>
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+ removed to save space. </p>
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<p>Line <a href="#line40">40</a> defines the main target of the software,
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the one that will be eventually be used by the top level
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once for later offline build. Note that if you add a new package providing
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a <code>foo-source</code> target is <i>mandatory</i> to support
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users that wish to do offline-builds. Furthermore it eases checking
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- if all package-sources are downloadable.</p>
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+ if all package-sources are downloadable. </p>
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<p>Lines <a href="#line44">44-46</a> define a simple target to clean the
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software build by calling the <i>Makefiles</i> with the appropriate option.
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The <code>-clean</code> target should run <code>make clean</code>
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on $(BUILD_DIR)/package-version and MUST uninstall all files of the
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- package from $(STAGING_DIR) and from $(TARGET_DIR).</p>
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+ package from $(STAGING_DIR) and from $(TARGET_DIR). </p>
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<p>Lines <a href="#line48">48-49</a> define a simple target to completely
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remove the directory in which the software was uncompressed, configured and
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compiled. The <code>-dirclean</code> target MUST completely rm $(BUILD_DIR)/
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- package-version.</p>
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+ package-version. </p>
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<p>Lines <a href="#line51">51-58</a> adds the target <code>foo</code> to
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the list of targets to be compiled by Buildroot by first checking if
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@@ -699,7 +699,7 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_FOO
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global variable. The name added to the TARGETS global
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variable is the name of this package's target, as defined on
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line <a href="#line40">40</a>, which is used by Buildroot to download,
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- compile, and then install this package.</p>
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+ compile, and then install this package. </p>
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<h3>Conclusion</h3>
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<p>As you can see, adding a software to buildroot is simply a
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matter of writing a <i>Makefile</i> using an already existing
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example and to modify it according to the compilation process of
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- the software.</p>
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+ the software. </p>
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<p>If you package software that might be useful for other persons,
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don't forget to send a patch to Buildroot developers !</p>
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